Alert jawans of the Border Security Force foiled a major bid to smuggle arms, ammunition and narcotics along the international border at Arnia in the Ranbir Singh Pura sector of Jammu frontier during the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday.
Interestingly, the trans border smugglers had adopted a unique modus operandi to push a huge consignment of narcotics (suspected heroine). According to the ground reports, the smugglers had tied around 60 packets, weighing almost one kilo each, and had placed a PVC pipe near the barbed wire fence (to be used as a smooth channel) to push these packets inside the Indian territory.
On August 29, the BSF authorities had also detected a trans-border tunnel originating from Pakistan in the Samba sector.
Inspector General of BSF, Jammu frontier NS Jamwal told reporters at a BSF border outpost on Sunday, “The consignment that comprised 62 packets of drugs, two pistols and four magazines was being pushed via a pipe near the Budhwar post around 2 am on Sunday”.
He said, “the BSF troops deployed at Budhwar and Bullechak posts had first observed suspicious movement of around four Pakistani nationals near the IB past midnight”. “When these people were challenged by the BSF troops they opened fire. When our troops retaliated in self defence the group retreated towards the Pakistan territory”, he added.
When asked whether any movement was spotted towards the Indian side to collect these packets, IG BSF said, it appears they may have escaped following small exchange of firing. He said, our troops maintained the cordon of the area during the night and at the first light thorough searches were conducted.
Earlier, on Friday, security forces had arrested three Lashkar-e-Taiba (LET) terrorists at Rajouri in the Jammu division after they had picked a consignment of arms and ammunition and Rs 1 lakh in cash that was dropped by a Pakistani drone.
On June 20, security forces had shot down an arms-laden Pakistani drone at Rathua in Kathua district’s Hiranagar sector.